Lanarkshire House

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Rear facade along Ingram Street

Lanarkshire House , also Corinthian Club , is a commercial building in the Scottish city ​​of Glasgow . In 1970 the building was included as an individual monument in the Scottish monument lists in the highest monument category A.

history

The building was built in 1841 for the Glasgow and Ship Bank , incorporating the Buchanan Mansion built around 1752 . The architects David Hamilton and James Hamilton provided the design . The Glasgow and Ship Bank merged into the Union Bank of Scotland (now part of the Royal Bank of Scotland ) in 1843 , which used the building as its headquarters. Around 1853 the counter room was redesigned with a glass dome, among other things. A new entrance on Virginia Place has also been created. The bank entrusted James Salmon with the planning of this work . Between 1876 and 1879 the building was extended and the facade structure it is today was given by the architect John Burnet .

Union Bank moved its headquarters in 1927 to the new building at 110-120 St Vincent Street . 1930 acquired the administrative county Lanarkshire the building and used it as the administrative headquarters. Lanarkshire House was redesigned again during the 1960s. In 1964, the Glasgow judiciary acquired the Lanarkshire Building and used it as a relief building. It has been home to catering establishments since the 1990s.

description

The classically designed, three-story building stands at the head of Virginia Street and occupies a full square that extends on the north side to Ingram Street . Adjacent is the former headquarters of the Glasgow Savings Bank . The south-facing main facade is seven axes wide. The masonry is rusticated in the area of ​​the ground floor and the first floor . Details of the upper floors are set off with red granite from Peterhead . Doric pilasters made of unpolished granite flank the windows on the first floor , while polished granite was used for the colonnade of Corinthian columns on the second floor.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  2. ↑ Information on scottisharchitects.org.uk

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Coordinates: 55 ° 51 '34.4 "  N , 4 ° 14' 58.9"  W.